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In full color with over 100 illustrations and corresponding discussion questions, Perspectives on Argument provides the visual appeal that students expect and considers visual argument in our media-oriented culture. It continues to present Nancy Wood’s intuitive explanation of Toulmin, Classical, and Rogerian approaches as well as rhetorical and visual analysis. Her classroom-tested assignment sequence allows students to progress from easy to more difficult writing tasks and to integrate reading, thinking, writing, and research skills at every stage. The many readings and visuals help students consider the range of opinion before refining or formulating their own.0321980239 / 9780321980236 Perspectives on Argument Plus MyWritingLab with Pearson eText - Access Card Package, 8/e Package consists of: 0205870147 / 9780205870141 MyWritingLab with Pearson eText - Valuepack Access Card0321964268 / 9780321964267 Perspectives on Argumen

ContentsAlternate Table of Contents 00Preface 000

Part 1 Engaging with Argument 1

1 A PERSPECTIVE ON ARGUMENT 0What Is Your Current Perspective on Argument? 0A Definition of Argument 0Recognizing Traditional and Consensual Argument 0Recognizing Visual Argument 0Under What Conditions Does Argument Work Best? 00Under What Conditions Does Argument Fail? 00Distinguishing Between Ethical and Unethical Argument 00Recognizing Argument in the 21st Century 00Engaging with Issues 00How Should You Engage with Issues? 00Review Questions 00Exercises and Activities 00Essays for AnalysisFelix Carroll / No Escape from ’Helicopter Parents’ 00Abby Ellin / The Laptop Ate My Attention Span 00Prisna Virasin / The Barbie Controversy 00Image for AnalysisImage 1: Waterfront Living 00

2 THE RHETORICAL SITUATION: UNDERSTANDING AUDIENCE AND CONTEXT 00Analyze the Rhetorical Situation When You Read an Argument 00Analyze the Rhetorical Situation When You View a Visual Argument 00Analyze the Rhetorical Situation When You Encounter an Argument Online 00Use the Rhetorical Situation When You Write an Argument 00Conducting an Audience Analysis 00Review Questions 00Exercises and Activities 00Essays for AnalysisChris Piper / “A” Is for “Absent” 00Will Harrel / “A Defense of Grade Deflation” 00The Library of Congress / The Civil Rights Era 00Images for AnalysisImage 1: Rosa Parks Rides in the Front of the Bus 00Image 2: Auschwitz Victims of Medical Experiments 00

7 THE FALLACIES AND ETHICAL ARGUMENT 000Fallacies in Logic 000Fallacies That Affect Character or Ethos 000Emotional Fallacies 000Ethics and Morality in Argument 000Review Questions 000Exercises and Activities 000Essays for AnalysisHannah Sternberg / Conservative Feminism Is Not an Oxymoron 000Kelly Dickerson / Minor Problems? 238Images for AnalysisImage 1: A Shower Gels Ad 000Image 2: 1930s Drunk Driving Poster 000Image 3: An Ad for a Blog 000Essay with Images for AnalysisGettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863 / The Gettysburg Address 000Image 1: President Lincoln Among the Crowd at Gettysburg 000Image 2: The Soldier’s National Monument that Stands in the Center of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 000

10 REVIEW AND SYNTHESIS OF ARGUMENT STRATEGIES 000Reading for the Argument Analysis Paper 000Writing the Argument Analysis Paper 000Rhetorical Situation for “A Call to Unity: A Letter from Eight White Clergymen” and “Letter from Birmingham Jail” 000Focus Topics to Help You Analyze the Letters 000Essays for AnalysisWhite Clergymen / A Call for Unity: A Letter from Eight White Clergymen 000Martin Luther King Jr. / Letter from Birmingham Jail 000Review Questions 000Exercises and Activities 000

Part III Writing a Researched Argument 000

11 THE RESEARCH PAPER: PLANNING, RESEARCH, AND INVENTION 000Understanding the Assignment and Getting Started 000Writing a Claim and Clarifying Your Purpose 000Some Preliminary Questions to Help You Narrow and Develop Your Claim 000Developing a Research Plan 000Understanding the Audience 000Analyzing Your Class as Your Audience 000Constructing an Unfamiliar Audience 000Using Information about Your Audience 000Get Organized for Research 000Locating Sources for Research 000Evaluating Sources 000Creating a Bibliography 000Taking and Organizing Your Notes 000Two Invention Strategies to Help You Think Creatively about Your Research and Expand Your Own Ideas 000Review Questions 000Exercises and Activities 000Essays for AnalysisAngela Boatwright / Human Cloning: An Annotated Bibliography 000Image for AnalysisImage 1: What’s Wrong with Cloning Humans? 000

12 THE RESEARCH PAPER: USING SOURCES, WRITING, AND REVISING 000Matching Patterns and Support to Claims 000Outlining Your Paper and Cross-Reference Your Notes 000Incorporating Research into Your First Draft 000Making Revisions and Preparing the Final Copy 000Present Your Paper Orally to the Class 000Review Questions 000Exercises and Activities 000APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 12: How to Document Sources Using MLA and APA Styles 000MLA: HOW TO CITE SOURCES IN THE BODY OF THE TEXT 000MLA: HOW TO CITE SOURCES IN THE WORKS CITED PAGE 000MLA: STUDENT PAPER IN MLA STYLE 000PRISNA VIRASIN / The Big Barbie Controversy 000 QUESTIONS ON THE RESEARCHED POSITION PAPER, MLA STYLE 000APA: HOW TO CITE SOURCES IN THE BODY OF THE TEXT 000APA: HOW TO CITE SOURCES IN THE REFERENCES PAGE 000APA: STUDENT PAPER IN APA STYLE 000DARRELL D. GREER / Alaskan Wolf Management 000 QUESTIONS ON THE RESEARCHED POSITION PAPER, APA STYLE 000

Introduction to “The Reader”: Reading and Writing About Issue Areas 000Purpose of “The Reader” 000How to Use “The Reader” 000Section 1 Families and Personal Relationships 000The Issues 000Exploring Online Argument 000The Rhetorical Situation 000A. WHAT IS THE STATUS OF THE TRADITIONAL AMERICAN FAMILY? HOW IS THE FAMILY BEING REDEFINED? 000Sarah Yoest Pederson / A Family of a Different Feather 000Lorraine Ali / The Curious Lives of Surrogates 000Margaret Rock / Till Tech Do Us Part 000B. WHAT CAUSES PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS TO SUCCEED OR FAIL? 000Robert Weiss / Unmasking the Neurobiology of Love 000Christine Hassler / Digital Dating: Desperation or Necessity? 000Anita Jain / Is Arranged Marriage Really Any Worse Than Craigslist? 000John Yemma / Millennial Generation: What’s Love Got to Do With It? 000Questions to Help You Think and Write About Families and Personal Relationships 000Section 2 Modern Technology 000The Issues 000Exploring Online Argument 000The Rhetorical Situation 000A. HOW ARE ONLINE TECHNOLOGIES CHANGING THE WAY WE LIVE? 000Nicholas Carr / Is Google Making Us Stupid? 000Evgeny Morozov / Are Smart Gadgets Making Us Dumb?Scott Steinberg / How Video Games Can Make You Smarter Reading Images: Ways of Reading 000Matthew Kirschenbaum / How Reading is Being Reimagined 000B. HOW IS TECHNOLOGY CHANGING OUR DEFINITION OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN? 000Ray Kurzweil / Our Bodies, Our Technologies 000Peggy Orenstein / Your Gamete, Myself 000Kathleen Craig / Making a Living in Second Life 000Questions to Help You Think and Write About Modern Technology 000Section 3 Education and Learning 000The Issues 000Exploring Online Argument 000The Rhetorical Situation 000A. WHAT ARE THE KEY PROBLEMS CONFRONTING HIGHER EDUCATION? 000Tressie MacMillan Cottom, “Redefining the ‘Typical’ College Student” (new)Scott Jaschik / Getting Out of Grading 000Editorial Board, Daily Californian / Making College Affordable 000Kevin Carey / College Consumerism Run Amok 000B. WHAT ROLE SHOULD TECHNOLOGY PLAY IN EDUCATION? 000Zach Miners / Twitter Goes to College 000Sarah Perez / Social Network Profile Costs Woman College Degree 000Mira Jacob / The Great Baby Einstein Scam 000Kerry Soper / RateMyProfessorsAppearance.com 000Questions to Help You Think and Write About Education and School 000Section 4 Race, Culture, and Identity 000The Issues 000Exploring Online Argument 000The Rhetorical Situation 000A. HOW IMPORTANT IS RACE TO AMERICAN IDENTITY? 000Emma Daly / DNA Test Gives Students Ethnic Shocks 000READING IMAGES: Racial Role Reversal in William Shakespeare’s Othello 000Martin Luther King Jr. / I Have a Dream 000K. A. Dilday / Go Back to Black 000B. TO WHAT EXTENT DOES INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY DEPEND ON ETHNIC AFFILIATION? 000Mychal Denzel Smith / To Be Young and Black in America 000Dorinne K. Kondo / On Being a Conceptual Anomaly 000Katie Halper / Digging for Roots at Secular Camp 000Carlos Lozada / What Makes Me Hispanic 000Questions to Help You Think and Write About Race, Culture, and Identity 000Section 5 The Environment and Sustainability 000The Issues 000Exploring Online Argument 000The Rhetorical Situation 000A. HOW CAN WE CREATE A MORE SUSTAINABLE CULTURE OF EATING? 000Lisa Hamilton / Unconventional Farmers; Let Them Eat Meat 000James McWilliams / The Green Monster 000Josh Viertel, The Soul of Slow Food 000Martha Rosenberg, “Is Animal Treatment on Farms Our Business? 000B. HOW CAN WE RESOLVE THE ECONOMY VERSUS ENVIRONMENT DEBATE? 000Ramit Plushnick-Masti / Descendants of Slaves in East Texas Hold Out Against Luminant’s Coal Mining Plans 000Reading Images: Coal Mining and the Environment 000Stuart Price / Carving Up the Congo 000Reading Images: The Rain Forest 000Brian Wingfield / For Job Market, Green Means Growth 000Bill Carter / The Hidden Costs of Going Green 000Reading Images: “Near-Zero Energy Home” Advertisement 000Questions to Help You Think and Write About Issues of the Environment and Sustainability 000Section 6 Immigration 000The Issues 000Exploring Online Argument 000The Rhetorical Situation 000A. HOW SHOULD WE RESPOND TO THE GLOBAL PROBLEM OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION? 000Marc Cooper / Exodus 000Peter Wilby / The Right to Sell Labor 000Angela Maria Kelley / The Changing Face of Immigration in America 000Jake and Calvin Ratana / Dispelling the Myth of the Model Minority 000B. DO GOOD FENCES MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS WHEN DEFINING NATIONAL BORDERS? 000Jonah Goldberg / To Wall or Not to Wall 000David Aaronovitch / It’s Not Immigrations We Fear, It’s Change 000Reading Images: What Is American? 000Miguel Bustillo / Town Against the Wall 000Section 7 War and Peace 000The Issues 000Exploring Online Argument 000The Rhetorical Situation 000A. IS WAR INEVITABLE? HOW DOES WAR BECOME INTEGRAL TO SOCIETY? 000William James / The Moral Equivalent of War 000Reading Images: War Memorials and Martial Character 000Margaret Mead / Warfare: An Invention—Not a Biological Necessity 000Reading Images: Child Soldiers 000David Goodman / A Few Good Kids? 000B. HOW DO PEOPLE JUSTIFY WAR? 000Noah Charles Pierce / Iraq War Poems 000Frank Deford / Sweetness and Light 000Haim Watzman / When You Have to Shoot First 000Credits 000Subject Index 000Author-Title Index 000